On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
You have got the devil in you,” say they, “and we will whip him out of you.” I have often been put thus to the torture, on bare suspicion.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “You have got the devil in you,” say they, “and we will whip him out of you.” I have often been put thus to the torture…”
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In his autobiography, Douglass recounts the brutal and arbitrary methods slaveholders used to punish enslaved people, often based on mere suspicion.
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